{"id":1146,"date":"2011-04-28T01:22:41","date_gmt":"2011-04-28T01:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/?p=1146"},"modified":"2011-04-22T16:29:45","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T16:29:45","slug":"author-kathy-herman-false-pretenses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/uncategorized\/author-kathy-herman-false-pretenses","title":{"rendered":"Author Kathy Herman &#038; False Pretenses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-1146 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Kathy-Herman.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Kathy-Herman-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/False-Pretenses.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/booksbylyncote.com\/SWBS\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/False-Pretenses-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">My guest today is best-selling Author Kathy Herman. I&#8217;ve read most of Kathy&#8217;s books and written endorsements for her. I had the pleasure of lunching with her in Dallas in 2009. It was so nice to meet her finally and her sweet dh! Here&#8217;s Kathy:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;\">&#8220;I love Lyn\u2019s courageous women  and appreciate her giving me the opportunity to talk about two of mine.  In my newest book, <em>False Pretenses<\/em>, Zoe Broussard, is on top  of her game. She\u2019s married Pierce, the love of her life, who is also  the head chef at Zoe B\u2019s, their thriving Cajun eatery in South Louisiana.  Her life is exactly the way she wants it. And then she gets a series  of anonymous notes with five simple words: <em>I know what you did.<\/em> Zoe is panic-stricken, and feels as if her perfect world is crumbling.   She\u2019s got a secret she\u2019s never told anyone\u2014not even Pierce. A  secret so awful that, if revealed, it could destroy everything she\u2019s  built <em>and <\/em>ruin her marriage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;\">Zoe has lied about who she is  and how she got her business started\u2014and told lies to cover her lies.  Her journey through this nightmare she <a name=\"0.1_OLE_LINK2\"><\/a><a name=\"0.1_OLE_LINK1\"><\/a> created takes her back to the wealthy widow she once worked for, Adele  Woodmore. Digging out of her mess requires more of Zoe than mustering  the courage to confess that she stole Adele\u2019s valuable ring and making  arrangements to pay back the money. It also requires dealing with the  shame of growing up in an abusive family and then changing her name,  attempting to recreate herself. When she finally gets up the courage  to tell Pierce everything he knows about her is a lie, he is shocked  and feels betrayed. But Pierce comes to realize that the Zoe he fell  in love with is real, no matter what name she went by. And before the  story ends, both Zoe and Pierce are empowered by the example set by  Adele\u2014who not only forgives Zoe, but cancels her debt.\u00a0 It was  through this extraordinary heroine and her amazing example that Zoe  found her own true identity in Christ\u2014and a family of believers that  would accept her for who she really was.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;\">Zoe\u2019s deception was extreme,  and so was Adele\u2019s act of grace. At the deepest level, isn\u2019t their  story our story? I loved being able to give the Zoe the life she was  looking for, both temporal and eternal. And Adele \u2026 well, I admired  her so much that I made her the sole heroine in the second book in the  series.&#8221;&#8211;Kathy<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: small;\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">For more info about Kathy and her books, drop by<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><span style=\"font-family: Book Antiqua; font-size: medium;\">: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kathyherman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.kathyherman.com<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Have any of you been affected by a secret finally being revealed? In my &#8220;Women of Ivy Manor&#8221; series, I wrote a scene where 4 generations of women in one family got together and finally told all the family secrets. The secrets had blocked their relationships. The truth told in love can be freeing. What do you think?&#8211;Lyn<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My guest today is best-selling Author Kathy Herman. I&#8217;ve read most of Kathy&#8217;s books and written endorsements for her. I had the pleasure of lunching with her in Dallas in 2009. 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